CNN reports indicate that just 47.9 million people tuned in to the first 2024 presidential debate. The 2020 re-match saw a 35% dip in audience from the first clash between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, which drew 73.1 million viewers in September 2020. The debate, hailed by many as catastrophic for the Biden campaign as […]
Following the first debate of the 2024 election between US President Joe Biden and Republican challenger Donald Trump, posts say CNN political director David Chalian suggested replacing the incumbent as the Democratic nominee, making inflammatory remarks in an analysis. But the video is altered; a CNN spokesperson confirmed the audio is fake and a review […]
ATLANTA, GEORGIA – JUNE 27: Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump reacts during the CNN Presidential Debate at the CNN Studios on June 27, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. Former President Trump and U.S. President Joe Biden are facing off in the first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) […]
Should things go the way they seem to be going, the events of Thursday night may go down as the greatest unforced error in presidential electoral politics since Richard Nixon, fatigued and unshaven, went on-camera against John F. Kennedy in 1960. Joe Biden ran up against two sets of limitations in the June 27 CNN-hosted […]
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are set to go head-to-head in the first presidential debate of 2024 on Thursday. This marks the first time a presidential debate has been held before the nominating conventions. Here’s what to know on the “CNN Presidential Debate.” You can watch the debate in the video player […]
By Nandita Bose and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House Correspondents’ Association said on Thursday CNN has rejected multiple requests to include White House pool reporters inside the studio during the first presidential debate between incumbent Joe Biden and Republican rival Donald Trump. The press pool, made up of representatives of major news organizations […]
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the independent US presidential candidate polling at about 8%, won’t be at tonight’s Biden-Trump TV smackdown in Atlanta. But he’s not taking the diss quietly, and has accused debate host CNN of colluding with the major party campaigns to exclude him. In an email statement on Wednesday, the Kennedy campaign claimed […]
CNN’s Chris Wallace said Donald Trump plans to be “nice and respectful” for Thursday’s presidential debate, prompting hearty laughter from CNN special correspondent Jamie Gangel. (Watch the video below.) Wallace was reporting to fellow panelists what he heard from the former president’s staffers ahead of his verbal showdown with President Joe Biden on the news […]
CNN anchor John Berman pushed back Wednesday at former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s suggestion that terms of the first presidential debate Thursday will give President Biden an unfair advantage over former President Trump. In an interview on “CNN News Central,” Ramaswamy, now a staunch Trump backer, said Biden had a series of advantages. “I […]
Speaker Mike Johnson, the highest-ranking Republican in government, has been leaning hard into former President Donald Trump’s embrace lately. Naturally, that boosting extends to blatant spin ahead of Thursday’s presidential debate. “I expect everybody will be watching,” Johnson told Tony Perkins, president of the archconservative Family Research Council, on the latter’s new show, “This Week […]
Donald Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt got dissed and dismissed during an interview on CNN Monday, and the former president’s allies are up in arms. Leavitt was speaking with CNN’s Kasie Hunt when she began criticizing the network, which will host the first Biden-Trump presidential debate on Thursday, June 27. Leavitt praised her boss for […]
What makes “a dictator” an actual “dictator”? North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum jousted with CNN host Kaitlan Collins over that concept Sunday in discussing his repeated use of the word “dictatorship” to described President Joe Biden’s administration. Burgum, who is considered one of the most likely choices to become the running mate of presumptive GOP […]